Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. References Bastide, H.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Why and how it is done varies across cultures.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How do environmental, historical, and cultural factors influence human-javelina relations in Texas? The introduction stresses the significance of understanding human-javelina encounters within their specific socio-ecological contexts through a blend of historical, ecological, and cultural analysis.

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

From the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. Hence in the name of the “preservation of and knowledge” we have a system which achieves neither true knowledge nor true culture. Footnote #8: Sartre, op.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world. A wide range of departments including engineering, anthropology, classics, history, English, sociology and philosophy participate in its teaching. And that alone will unleash critical thinking and innovation.

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